freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread John Baker
Hello *I'm running FreeRadius with the standard Ubuntu Breezy package that reads as freeradius 1.0.4-2. Its been the connection to the LDAP backend for authentication on an old Cisco 3640 with IOS 12.2(23) for quite a while. I'm trying to setup a new 2811 router with IOS 12.4(11)T1 and am

Re: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread Alan DeKok
John Baker wrote: The setup works fine if I use a password like testing123 on both ends. But when I use radius-server key 7 to encrypt it breaks. As in... what happens? The current setup does use this so I know it works. But in all the documentation I've been weeding** through** on

Re: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread John Baker
Hello I'm certain was using the right command. The number 7 in the line tells the router that a hidden key will follow. coltrane(config)#radius-server key ? 0 Specifies an UNENCRYPTED key will follow 7 Specifies HIDDEN key will follow LINE The UNENCRYPTED (cleartext) shared key

RE: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread King, Michael
It sounds like your trying to encrypt the shared secret in the router config. Or, your trying to copy the encrypted shared secret and paste it. (The 7 is what tipped me off) First, you need to verify that you have the password-encryption is enabled in the IOS. This is the magic that makes

RE: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread King, Michael
One further comment. The shared secret in FreeRADIUS CANNOT be the really long number in the IOS config file. This is an encrypted hash of the REAL secret. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

Re: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread Peter Nixon
Hi Michael Please add any info you feel is relevant to: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Cisco Cheers Peter On Mon 09 Apr 2007, King, Michael wrote: It sounds like your trying to encrypt the shared secret in the router config. Or, your trying to copy the encrypted shared secret and paste it.

Re: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread John Baker
Okay, this is the piece I was trying to figure out. :) Like I said in a follow up I found that copying the key out of the old cisco config and the old one in the users.conf worked. Initially I made an error on this cisco end when copying that made it fail. So the piece of confusion is how you

RE: freeradius and cisco hidden share

2007-04-09 Thread King, Michael
-Original Message- So the piece of confusion is how you get that encrypted hash in there in the first place when configuring a new key. Service password-encryption http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps5207/products_command_